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Video-endoscopy demonstrates that the cyclic narrowing is visibly pulsating; one-for-one with the palpated radial pulse; and one-for-one with the electrocardiographic cycle (with peak luminal narrowing occurring after the electrocardiographic QRS complex with a brief lag) (WMV 3216 kb)
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Cappell, M.S., Gjeorgjievski, M. & Orosey, M. Case Report of Novel Endoscopic Findings in SMA Syndrome Demonstrated by Video Endoscopy: Visibly Pulsating, Band-Like, Compression in Third Portion of Duodenum, with the Pulsations Corresponding One-for-One with the Radial Pulse and EKG Cycle. Dig Dis Sci 64, 1715–1718 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-019-5472-6
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